Federal Conservation Units in Brazil: The Situation of Biomes and Regions

AUTOR(ES)

Mattar, Eduardo Pacca Luna, Barros, Tiago Teixeira Viana, Cunha, Benjamin Barros, Souza, Joab Ferreira de, Silva, Alcimone Maria da Costa

FONTE

Floresta Ambient.

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

01/03/2018

RESUMO

ABSTRACT Federal conservation units (FCU) are areas legally established by the government, in order to meet the needs of protection and sustainable exploitation of biodiversity. A way to ensure the efficiency of public management is to systematize data. Therefore, the present study grouped and analyzed public data about FCU. Brazil has 309 federal conservation units, which represent 9.06% of the national territory and 45305 residents households. The Northern Region covers 84.80% of these families and 79.20% of its area belongs to FCU. The Amazônia biome has 14.57% of its territory occupied by FCU; on the other hand, Pantanal has only 0.98% of its area protected. There is a higher concentration of public agents in the FCU of the Southeastern region and in the Mata Atlântica biome. The analysis of this information reveals significant differences between the biomes and the federation units, a fact that reflects the importance of the organization of public data.

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